This festival is all about that rye. Attendees will enjoy a broad range of over 20 rye beers, rye cocktails, and rye themed food.

This year, the festival even includes a one of a kind beer called Lemon Rye-zome. This is a special beer created by the festival organizer, Kerry Finsand and Lompoc Brewing’s Spencer Gotter. The beer is made from Soracha Ace hops and lemongrass.

The Rye Beer Fest isn’t just about trying new beers, though. Proceeds from the festival go toward the Dawn to Dusk Paddle Fund. This fund helps run the Dawn to Dusk endurance-paddling event that raises money for the Children’s Cancer Association. Over the last few years, more than $127,000 has been raised.

The festival has also joined forces with Curb. Curb, the service formerly known as Taxi Magic, will make sure you stay safe after your night of celebrating. Your ticket entry includes $15 off your first Curb ride; all you need to do is type the code PDXBEER into your Curb app.

Obviously, there are more than a few reasons to go to this year’s Rye Beer Fest. So go ahead and click HERE for more details.

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#7

Upright Brewing Oyster Stout

Oyster Stout sounds strange, right? Just imagine your stout with a salty kick and a mineral taste at the end. It turns out to be very flavorful, time tested concoction. Locally, Upright Brewing makes a tasty one in their seasonal portfolio and looks like it will be released shortly after the first of the year.

#6

Rogue Ales Beard Beer

While most beer is brewed with carefully cultivated yeast strains, there are any number of wild yeasts that can be used, though this one is decidedly the strangest. Somehow Rogue Brewer John Maier “discovered” a natural yeast ideal for brewing in his beard. Yuck. Stylistically, an “American Wild Ale, if you are really interested in trying it yourself, you can buy a bottle here.

#5

Wynkoop Brewery Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout

What started – and should have ended – as an April Fools’ Day prank led to the release of Wynkoop Brewery’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout. They only sell it in two packs. Get it? I won’t suggest where you might buy this one, dear reader, because I like you and would not do that to you.

#4

Rogue Ales Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale

Rogue Ales Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale has been on the market for a while and is ubiquitous in Portland, as are the other mistakes they brewed to taste like Portland’s biggest tourist trap’s products. Good for Rogue for hopping on the tourist bandwagon by partnering with Voodoo Doughnuts on this uniquely Portland beer. This beer drinker has to admit that drinking this beer forced me to admit that not everything is actually better with bacon.

#3

Evil Twin Turkish Delight

Me: What does Turkish Delight taste like?

Beer store clerk: Um, it tastes like Turkish Delight.

Me: Um, okay. What is Turkish Delight?

Clerk: Just try it.

Tastes like put coffee and cardamom in my darker ale. Nuff said? I’m not chomping at the bit to try either Turkish Delight or the Evil Twin’s Turkish Delight beer again. It is available locally at Belmont Station if you are interested.

#1

Rogue Ales Sriracha Stout

Apparently 2014 was the Year of the Rooster, with millions more discovering Sriracha, a simple staple in Vietnamese restaurants (and a product that has stayed stocked in my fridge since at least 2005). Never one to miss hopping on a bandwagon, Rogue Ales brewed a stout with it. Shocking, right? It tastes exactly like you’d expect: like someone pranked you by sneaking some hot sauce into your otherwise tasty stout when you went to the loo. The only place to find this gem is at Rogue Hall until more is released after the first of the year.